The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1887-03-12
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.

st. Patrick's Day in the Morning.
Every Nation. and every peoples,
have their patran saints. Even
the children have one in St. Mich.
olas, the Indians in Tammanv.
and the darkies in Hannibal. The
Catholics have more than anybody
else, possibly because they need
more. St. Patrick was born be
lore We were, and out of our dis
trict. Indeed it has not yet been
definitely settled where he was
born-Scetland, Spain, France,
and perhaps otner countries claim
the honor OF presenting him to the
world, nut the weight of eTidence,
as given US by tradition, seems 10
favor Scotland as the scene of his
birth. But in early lif, he wen.
west AMI settl1l in tha wsst OF
Ireland, wAere hs is reDuted to
have banished the snakes. Wheth
er his agency had anything to do
with the eviction OF snakes in sthe
amid dart" or not, is matter of
opinion which Is gwen to differ.
but it is a fact which any menaserie
nan will swear to, that snakes sa.
ken to Ireland on exhibition make
TASTY exits theretrom by the death
route.
Inc old song has it that
81. Pa.rick was a gentleman,
And horn ef daceai people,
Ia DuhiiS town he buiit church,
AND On it pun s,ecple."
But we don't believe it. for Pat.
lived and died be'o.e Dablin WAS
Inhabited.
l}a. St. Patrick, il he hadn't the |
honor Of being born in Ireland had |
that Of dying there, for that such
a parsonage once lived is as or
tain rs that another persen g
known as Pope Ing raoll, uov
lives, and we are ready to admi
that he WAS broth OF boy,"
bat not that
His mother kept a shebesn house,
In The town of Inniskinsn."
FOR tradition does not tell us that
Pats mother took the railroad
with her distinguished son, and
" made sail" for Ireland.
St. Patrick was doubtless a full
aodged Catholic of the Roman
persuasion, and albeit the writer
is not, we have no sy sympathy with
those who believe that the holders
t that religious faith are hurtful
10 our government, tor we relnem-
Der that had it not been for Roman
Catholics our Revolution would
nave been a "lust cause" We
10 not simply refer to La Fayette,
cut to the nuMberloss naval and
military officers and privates and
- Iish Molly's' who gave such aid
n delivering our country froA En- !
dish thraldem. Tnen what Amer
can citizen who loves his country.
md Is convsrSant with it's history,
an forget Bishop Carroll, brother d
tCharleS Carroll, OF Carrolton, who
So much monsy and ,
influence to push the Revolution
ry war to a successful conclusi9n. :
Ie, il answer to n Prots tai .ric nd
'rOte the following grand words,
o which every American patrist
an answer with heartfelt "a
lsn -
Your sentiments on religious
berty coincide eutire y with mine u
70 obtain religious us well as
iyi, liOery,I entered zealously in y
, the Revolution, and obs, rVing u
he Christian religion divided into
AMY sects, | founded the hope =.
bar no enc would b CON, the re
giou of tine state. God grSnt
lat this religious liberty May be
reserved in these States To- tie II
nj OF time, and that. believing i
a tao religion of Christ, we may !,
raclce the leading principle Of "
iiarity, the basis at virIue"
Bat. we come back to St. Patrick
Ie must have been a lover of mn O